Young Children's Thinking about Biological World

✍ Scribed by Giyoo Hatano; Kayoko Inagaki

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology Ser.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Presents research on the topic of young children's naive biology, examining such theoretical issues as processes, conditions and mechanisms in conceptual development using the development of biological understanding as the target case.

✦ Subjects

Cognition in children; PSY000000; PSY039000; SCI008000

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